Why This Precious Baby Sloth Thinks a Teddy Bear Is His Mother Will Make You Sniffle

Sloths aren't necessarily your favorite furry animals. But like any animal, if it's a baby then more than likely it's going to be darn cute.

This tiny 7-week-old sloth is no exception. Even at the beginning of the video Edward shows us why we should expand our cute creature preferences by opening his itsy bitsy mouth wide and giving us the cutest teeny yawn we ever did see.

Unfortunately for Edward, his mom, Marilyn, isn't able to raise him because she suddenly stopped producing milk. So a zookeeper named Kelly-Anne Kelleher is taking on the motherly role herself by using an unexpected tactic—a fluffy teddy bear.

According to the London Zoo, "To help build up the muscles that Edward would normally use holding on to [mom], keeper Kelly-Anne customized his sloth-teddy with harnesses so that it can be hung from a branch, enabling the youngster to climb on and strengthen his little limbs."

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We also imagine it must be comforting to hold onto a cuddly bear while receiving a belly-full of goat's milk. And hey, we can't complain about how precious the view is right?!

Apparently when Edward gets "hangry" as we like to call it (hungry + angry = hangry), he makes an adorable noise to voice his frustrations. You can hear it all at :56 in the video. With all that milk, he's "getting stronger and stronger by the day and is putting on weight nicely," Kelleher says.

Although the fuzzy sloth has to call the teddy his mom for now, zookeepers are hoping to reintroduce the tiny guy to his momma in a few months.

Until that day arrives, we're totally fine with watching him climb all over the furry bear.

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